Word: overwrought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recall the final arpeggio of the earlier "Gardens in the Rain" from his "Estampes." Pollini's mastery of Lisztian technique was evident in the whirling "What the West Wind Saw," and his refined yet poetic sensitivity in "The Girl With the Flaxen Hair," which too often suffers from overwrought performances, made one wish he'd consider recording some Satie...
...police source. Eller once even voiced suspicion that the D.A.'s office had tampered with police computers; the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) looked into the matter and dismissed it. No one questions that Eller is driving the investigation zealously, but there are whispers that he has become overwrought and erratic. Says a critic who knows him well: "He doesn't listen to the D.A.'s office. When they tell him you need more physical evidence or more searches done, he ignores this advice...
...concentrate the Romantic terrors of seascape; in them Ryder showed he was the Samuel Palmer of Ishmael's "watery part of the world." Some of his work, particularly the figure paintings, verged on kitsch, but that only made him seem more like another American visionary, Edgar Allan Poe--so overwrought, yet so influential. Though Ryder was never (in his own view) a Modernist, a succession of American artists from Marsden Hartley to Jackson Pollock and beyond would look up to him as an emblem of aesthetic purity, a holy sage...
Greider concludes that by staying its present course, the world will experience a series of "wrenching calamities." This may be overwrought, but the evidence of global dislocation he presents is sufficient to disturb even a committed believer in the economic revolution sweeping the globe today. --By Richard Hornik
...Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz seemed a tad too precious, a touch too eager to wrap up its conflicts with tidy bows. But the series, focused on a pair of new young lovers, quickly managed to ground itself more firmly in the rhythms of a real relationship. Poignant but not overwrought, Relativity has become one of TV's finest hours...